Jonas Leopold Brandeis

Birth record https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000141943570527

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._L._Brandeis_and_Sons

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99426658

Brandeis department store was a fixture in downtown Omaha during all those years, till it closed in the 1980's. Every child born in the area before the late 1970's remembers the Brandeis window displays at Christmas. The building is still there, filled with luxury condominiums now. The Brandeis cafeteria is a great place to eat lunch, if you're ever downtown. Brandeis descendants still live in Omaha, most notably Alan Baer.

was the founder of the J. L. Brandeis Stores in Omaha, Nebraska. At the top of its game, Brandeis had around fifteen department stores in its chain. The flagship store downtown became one of Omaha's most prized symbols of modern culture. Brandeis was Nebraska's department store. At its peak in the early 1970s, the chain had 3,000 employees and $100 million dollars in sales. The Crossroads Mall store opened in 1960 with mixed results but soon took off and proved to be one of the best stores in the chain, earning an average of $38 million. Crossroads proved to be extremely successful for Brandeis, despite the risk of opening the first new Brandeis in 50 years. Locations opened across the entire state, downtown (Columbus and Hastings) and in the malls (Conestoga in Grand Island, Southroads & Westroads in Omaha, and Gateway in Lincoln). Soon locations were developed into Iowa.